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Tiziano Bonini

@tbonini.bsky.social
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Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Robotaxis as "so so tech" "[It] is just good enough to replace human workers but not good enough to significantly improve quality of life or create broad social benefits...[it moves] power away from local public institutions toward private corporations" www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion: Who will robotaxis actually serve in San Diego?
Waymo needs real local oversight.
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Daten*bilden @datenxbilden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In ihrem Open-Access-Buch „Algorithms of Resistance“ beschreiben @tbonini.bsky.social und @emilianotrere.com, wie sich Aktivist*innen gegen algorithmische Systeme zur Wehr setzen, die zunehmend unseren Alltag beeinflussen.
Buchcover von Algorithms of Resistance – The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power von Tiziano Bonini und Emiliano Treré. Darunter steht der Titel "LESETIPP" sowie nochmals Autoren und Buchtitel. Gestaltung in Hellblau, Rosa und Dunkelblau, unten rechts das Logo von Daten*bilden.
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 26/08/2026
I switched to Proton (European) from Gmail last year and it fully meets my needs, including Drive/Docs/Sheets, and you can host several custom domain emails with just one paid account. I switched from Dropbox to Sync (Canadian company!) and that also has been excellent. We can each fight back.
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Amparo Lasén @amparolasen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Mañana estaremos a las siete en el Círculo de Bellas Artesm charlando con @emilianotrere.com y @tbonini.bsky.social sobre su libro Algoritmos de resistencia www.circulobellasartes.com/humanidades/...
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Algoritmos de resistencia - Círculo de Bellas Artes
Un repartidor estira la vida de su bicicleta por las cuestas de Livorno, una conductora sabe qué zonas evitar para que el mapa no la
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Círculo de Bellas Artes - Casa Europa @cbamadrid.es · 03/06/2026
Tu jefe no tiene despacho, horario ni rostro: es un algoritmo. Presentamos 'Algoritmos de resistencia', de @tbonini.bsky.social y @emilianotrere.com, el próximo libro del Círculo y @lenguaycirculo.bsky.social, en una conversación junto a @amparolasen.bsky.social. 🔗 acortar.link/PrccXL
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Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
contro la tesi della dipendenza da social media, ho scritto questo articolo per Doppiozero, in cui provo a dimostrare perché, dopo la sentenza del tribunale di LA contro META e Google stiamo combattendo la battaglia sbagliata contro Big Tech www.doppiozero.com/bigh-tech-di...
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Bigh tech, dipendenze e tribunali | Tiziano Bonini
Il 25 marzo 2026 una giuria di Los Angeles ha condannato Meta e Google a risarcire sei milioni di dollari a una giovane donna, identificata come K.G.M., che aveva iniziato a usare YouTube a sei anni e...
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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 08/12/2025
Gee, Open Institute of Technology was going to force me to use TurnItIn on student assignments, and I had to quit. Spread the word: OPIT is scum. medium.com/@kim_crawley... And ko-fi.com/kimatstopgenai
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I’m a professor literally risking my own life to fight the menace of Gen AI destroying education.
In this piece thoroughly backed by scientific research, I explain how Gen AI is destroying education, the environment, and the workforce.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/04/2026
Anthropic is using copyright claims to try to stop its leaked code being used to train rival AI models. Critics are noticing something of an irony, given Anthropic use of pirated materials to train its models. I've dug into the whole thing for @techpolicypress.bsky.social
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Anthropic Code Crisis Creates Copyright Contradiction
For publishers, authors, and other creators, the schadenfreude might feel well-earned, writes James Ball. But is it justified?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
2010: date a Internet il Nobel per la Pace! 2026: togliete i social ai nostri bambini non possiamo più sbagliare! 🤔
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
L'uomo che porta la pace. Eterna.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"China’s ruling Communist Party wants young women to prioritize getting married and having babies. Instead, many of them are finding romance with chatbots" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...
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Women Are Falling in Love With A.I. It’s a Problem for Beijing.
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
History repeats itself "A programme launched by the Ministry of Justice last week will aim to develop a system that can alert schools, health staff, police and other professionals to individuals most likely to be drawn into crime." #ryogens #preemptivesurveillance www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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The machines that will predict the criminals of the future
The Ministry of Justice will deploy machine learning to identify at-risk children for early intervention and to help prevent them falling into a life of crime
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Helena Palm @helenapalm.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pure evil
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Daniel Brumund @danbru8.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Looking for alternatives to Gmail and G-Drive? Two years ago I switched to #Posteo for emails and to @nextcloud.bsky.social for personal online storage (via #Hetzner). It costs me the equivalent of a good flat white per month & gives me peace of mind that my personal data isn't scraped or abused.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Take away Spanish and there's no San Francisco or Los Angeles or Sacramento, no San Diego or Santa Rosa or Sierra nevada and actually there's no California, because that's a Spanish word...
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Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The role of #GenAI in children’s development is ambivalent, and their opportunities (scaffolding learning) can easily turn into harmful consequences (deskilling and disempowerment). Read more here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... #SaferInternetDay
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Andrea Daniele Signorelli @adsignorelli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Perché 11 plugin di Claude hanno fatto crollare le azioni IT (soprattutto in India) e perché l’apocalisse del lavoro ventilata dallo stesso CEO di Anthropic potrebbe essere iniziata – e a pagare il conto saranno soprattutto i lavoratori junior www.wired.it/article/clau...
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Perché Claude Cowork “terrorizza” i mercati? C'è chi teme l’apocalisse del lavoro
Il lancio di nuovi strumenti di Anthropic in grado sostituire i software specialistici ha fatto crollare le borse in India (e non solo): il timore è che numerose professioni spariranno
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Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
il 20% di bambin* e adolescenti italian* chiede consigli all'AI su salute e forma fisica ma non si fida al 100%. questi e altri risultati nel report di @eukidsonline.bsky.social researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...
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Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"A balanced reading of existing research shows the impact of digital media depends on what children are watching, when, and why." but the debate on #ScreenTime is dominated by 6 papers that sell fears blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Why fear still sells research on screen time - Impact of Social Sciences
Regardless of quality research that deploys fear based framing drives public debate on screen time for children.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Israel uses technology as a tool for ethnic cleansing, designed to drive us out of Hebron’s city centre and make way for the Israeli settlement expansion taking place in breach of international law." www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-bo...
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Israel’s border tech is a tool for ethnic cleansing
In the West Bank, we are the unwilling test subjects for digital advancements in methods of population control
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Giovanna Mascheroni @giovannamas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Probably around 10 per cent of them actually have been banned, and half of that 10 per cent has been unbanned by just using basically the same thing that I did: use other people's faces, use their driver's licence. #SocialMediaBan www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless'
Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s is two months old, but teenagers say they have found ways around it.
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Why I refuse using chatGPT, latest short answer -> Trump Super PAC: "The biggest donations were $12.5 million each from Greg Brockman, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, and his wife" "www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/us/polit…
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Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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Yiannis Kalaitzis @yianniskalaitzis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!
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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"AI it’s not going to replace everyone. But if we think about AI, language models are the industrial production of language. It’s the same way that the factories in the 1800s were the industrial production of cloth. And I think we get a much clearer picture of what is going on." (Hagen Blix)
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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This year’s Nancy Baym Book Award committee would also like to give an Honourable Mention to @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com for Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power (@mitpress.bsky.social). Congratulations also!
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Giulio Cavalli @giuliocavalli.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Il piano di Israele, con le figure, così magari viene più facile comprenderlo.
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Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
da qualche mese faccio una newsletter, si chiama mediamedi(t)azioni. oggi ho pubblicato l'episodio 15, contro i tecno-libertarians. per leggerla: mailchi.mp/bda6aef7173c... per iscrivervi: mediameditazioni.com/meditazioni-...
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Medi(t)azioni #15
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Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
sull'importanza delle infrastrutture invisibili e sul perché dovremmo prendercene cura www.doppiozero.com/blackout-la-...
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Blackout: la rete e le infrastrutture | Tiziano Bonini
C’era un afroamericano con una tuta da basket, enorme, con le treccine, che vendeva ghiaccio. Montagne di ghiaccio. I sacchi di ghiaccio erano ammonticchiati come trincee di sabbia sul marciapiede. So...
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Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And we conclude with reviews of Algorithms of Resistance by @tbonini.bsky.social and @emilianotrere.com followed by the authors' response engaging with these diverse readings of their work... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 6/7
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Furthering the agenda of algorithmic resistance: Integrating gender and decolonial perspectives - Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Treré, 2025
Not only are books written from positions that are never neutral, but they are also read from positions which are also never neutral. The three commentaries we ...
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Could just use this as my cv. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/03/2025
“Chinese rivals are rolling out new models continuously and making updates to their products. By comparison, Tesla products look rather staid and stale to Chinese and Asian consumers.”
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Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets
Tesla was once an EV leader, but now struggles to keep up as Chinese automakers outpace it in sales, pricing, and innovation, especially in emerging markets
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 20/03/2025
"Internal communications show employees saying that Meta did indeed torrent LibGen, which means that Meta could have not only accessed pirated material but also distributed it to others". www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
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Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn
According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Next week I'll be in Oxford for this workshop on Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI studies. I'll talk about Platform Dependency, how platform studies are overlooking dependency theories and the importance of Latin American dependency theories www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/03/2025
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
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AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"‘They know what you are working on, they know what you are submitting, they know the results of your peer reviews... They control every part of the process + register every action you take... When Eiko Fried.. asked Elsevier for his personal data[,] he received [100s of K's] of data points..."
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Elsevier’s stranglehold on academia: How publishers get rich off our data
Academic publishers get rich collecting and then selling data from researchers. That is extremely concerning, say UG researchers.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/03/2025
Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint. Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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"“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ @CJR

Screenoshot of an image showing "Generative search tools were often confidently wrong in our study" showing baplots of different offerings like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Deepseek, and showing the percentage of wrong answers in red and right ones in green.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Fascism: “Columbia University recently set up an office that is secretly investigating its students for political statements about Israel, Drop Site News reported this week, and is requiring students to sign non-disclosure agreements to view the evidence being brought against them.”
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups
Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/03/2025
Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 07/03/2025
Da oggi in libreria! Leggetelo, compratelo, regalatelo! www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...
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A. ACERBI, Technopanic. New Media, Reasonable Caution, Unfounded Fear
The spread of fake news, the power of conspiracy theories, the influence of algorithms on our choices and behaviour, the impact of social media on youth’s mental health, and other similar phenomena al...
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sorry, Jonathan Haidt. Abstaining from social media does not contribute to well being. Study after study has shown this. But people still believe the myth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The effects of social media abstinence on affective well-being and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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